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    ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive

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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Does Bully Dog sell a kit that lets you inject diesel into the propane?
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Every time I see a propane powered pickup, I wish there was a grille mounted in the back - that would make this an attractive enough proposition to overlook the added cost.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Why would I pay ROUSH for the conversion kit when Joe the Plumber could do the job for considerably less? Those tanks aren't that hard to come by, and LPG version of assorted engines dot the landscape wherever there are warehouses - LPG induction systems can be had. Remapping the ECM? Big whoop - my techie 15-yr-old son could probably do it. I sure as hell wouldn't know what he was doing, but he could do it.


    Propane conversion = great. Bending over so ROUSH can screw me out of 8 large = not so great.

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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    whatever. i dont care about anything you have to say jalopnik. that image won me over
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    Image of damnelantra™ damnelantra™
    12/03/08

    @damnelantra™: although, now that i have red the artcle i must say im quite plesed with it. dirty glove reference and all.


    have the roads in fair daytwa been soiled over with the lovely 50/50-salt/diarrhea 5 day after snow storm goodness yet?


    also, i would not mind a propane auto


    [/scatter though process complete]

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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Oh, and I almost forgot; cabbage smell!
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    You sure that smoke isn't the condensation from a gas tank leak?
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    Image of wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie...


    Propane.

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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    I once road in a propane-powered Skoda taxi in Slovaquia. Or maybe it was a GPL car using a propane tank but either way it didn't feel very safe or reliable.
    This looks only marginally better.
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    Image of Graverobber Graverobber
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    I used to drive an ambulance, and we had a number of propane-converted vans in the fleet. One time, one of our drivers attempted a U-turn on a busy street without proper regard to impending traffic. She got T-boned by a Caddy Seville right in the side where the propane tank was mounted.

    We thought we'd get there and find a black spot in the road and a sub-orbital trajectory for the E-250 van. But the tank held up just fine and didn't rupture. She got canned though, so I guess it's not a happy ending.


    Back then (early '80s) propane was about 89¢ a gallon at Glo-tane.

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    Image of B B
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Does it have a narrow urethra?
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    Image of 68stang 68stang
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Hank Hill would be proud.
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    Image of combat chuck combat chuck
    12/03/08

    @68stang: I tell you hoowat!
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    Image of elwood elwood
    12/03/08

    @68stang: Dammit, Bobby.
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    12/03/08

    @elwood: That boy ain't right.
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    Image of wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Can I get one that runs on Sunshine and potato chips?
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    Image of layabout layabout
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Haha,brilliant!
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    Image of Amalgamated Stainless Headers, est.1978 Amalgamated Stainless Headers, est.1978
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    Forgot to add: DO WANT.
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    Image of Amalgamated Stainless Headers, est.1978 Amalgamated Stainless Headers, est.1978
    12/03/08

    In reply to ROUSH Propane-Powered F-150: First Drive
    That conversion cost seems crazy...Poms and the other English-speaking colonies have been doing LPG conversion for many years, to the tune of under $3k per vehicle. Here, of course, it's for off-road use only. Unless you own a fleet, since apparently the EPA is friendly to those operators.
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